[Morioka Hometown Guide] Course A

This information dissemination base was named after the Morioka dialect for ``Please come.'' In addition to the `` Tourism and Culture Information Plaza '' on the second floor, there is also a shop selling specialty products and a light snack cafe. In addition, the `` Morioka Tegami Museum '' on the 6th floor stores and exhibits letters and diaries of great people connected to Morioka.

This is the former site of Morioka Castle, which was the residence of the lords of the Nanbu domain. Morioka Castle was completed in 1633 during the reign of Shigenao, the third lord of the domain.
The castle was built on a hillside at the confluence of the former Kitakami River and Nakatsu River.
Today, the stonewalls and pond remain, and the area is known as Morioka Castle Ruins Park, which is enjoyed by citizens throughout the four seasons.

This is the communal well that Kenji Miyazawa used when he was a student at Morioka High School of Agriculture and Forestry (currently Iwate University Faculty of Agriculture) in 1912, when he was lodging with his younger brother Seiroku and cousin at the Tamai family in Osawagawara 1-chome. It is still freely available.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Inazo Nitobe, a cosmopolitan man born in his hometown who ``hopefully becomes a bridge over the Pacific Ocean'', Morioka City built this building on his birthplace in Shimonohashi Town with donations from citizens. Author Fumio Asakura). During the Pacific War, its achievements were largely ignored, and its legacy was only remembered by a few people, but after the war, its role was properly reviewed and reevaluated on both sides of the Pacific.

The Morioka Takuboku and Kenji Youth Museum is located in the former Dai Kuju Bank, which was completed in 1908, and introduces the town of Morioka where Takuboku Ishikawa and Kenji Miyazawa grew up and their youth.
Designated as a National Important Cultural Property on July 6, 2004

This information dissemination base was named after the Morioka dialect for ``Please come.'' In addition to the `` Tourism and Culture Information Plaza '' on the second floor, there is also a shop selling specialty products and a light snack cafe. In addition, the `` Morioka Tegami Museum '' on the 6th floor stores and exhibits letters and diaries of great people connected to Morioka.